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Staking

Solana staking

What delegating actually paid, recovered from the rewards the chain issued rather than modelled from an inflation rate. Solana is the one chain measured here where that is possible: it publishes what every validator was paid, every epoch.

What the chain is paying

epoch 1020 · 1 epoch observed

Gross rate, measured

4.71%

Median of every payment the chain made

Gross rate, protocol

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Needs total supply, which this endpoint will not serve

Total staked

433.44MSOL

Share of supply unavailable

Cluster slots skipped

0.05%

Assigned slots that produced no block

The two gross rates are computed from inputs that share nothing. One is the median of every payment the chain actually made; the other is inflation multiplied by supply and divided by total stake. They agree, and that agreement is what makes either publishable — a single unexplained number would be worth no more here than it is anywhere else.

Rates are annualised at 182.6 epochs a year, from Solana’s 400 ms target slot time. No full epoch has been observed end to end yet; once one has, the measured length replaces the target. Real epochs run slightly longer, so this figure is if anything a little generous.

How the set is actually paid

751 validators

A single network rate says almost nothing about what a delegation pays, because the set it averages over is not shaped like a bell. These are the three distributions the headline hides.

What a delegation earns

Net annual return after commission, in whole per cent. The lowest column holds two different things — validators that pay a little, and validators that take the whole reward — so it is labelled rather than coloured.

01234

net APR, %

What validators charge

Commission is bimodal, not spread: most validators sit at one end or the other, so the average commission describes almost nobody.

01–56–91011–5051–99100

commission, %

Where the stake sits

Cumulative share of stake against validator count. Delegating to a validator already near the top of this curve is what makes it steeper.

a third0%50%100%110100Solana validators: the top 1 hold 3.9%Solana validators: the top 5 hold 15.2%Solana validators: the top 10 hold 23.9%Solana validators: the top 20 hold 34.6%Solana validators: the top 50 hold 54.2%Solana validators: the top 100 hold 71.4%Solana validators: the top 250 hold 87.9%Solana validators: the top 500 hold 97.2%Solana validators: the top 751 hold 100.0%

validators, cumulative

Every validator

6-epoch window

Ordered by what a delegation would have earned, after commission. A validator’s advertised rate is not what it pays: the two things that separate them are the commission they take and the share of their assigned slots they actually produce.

How to read a rate

  • Measured— Recovered from a payment the chain made to this validator
  • Derived— The cohort's measured rate with this validator's commission and block production applied
  • Pays nothing— Commission of 100%: every reward is taken before the delegator sees it

201–250 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
2016Rk694kh1Q…311Mr74.47%5%92K79.0Good
202CpgSfd6QUo…fSbNEE4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
203By8MseMKtZ…3ktrHt4.71%derived0%93K100.0Excellent
204vahMVcSS3v…1P7L424.71%derived0%94K100.0Excellent
205BR1aTt4ZZU…eSwUB84.50%5%94K81.8Good
206Je6ckvDiPr…2G8tbP4.71%derived0%95K—Insufficient data
207BCJN2vZFAH…3mSWuh4.71%derived0%95K100.0Excellent
208sTEVErNNwF…n7WUFu4.46%5%95K78.6Good
209dst2u7mXMy…DKE9xH4.46%5%96K78.6Good
210chdvWr6T14…u3AfHe4.46%5%96K78.6Good
211D8xKNftHzF…57KK4e4.46%5%96K78.3Good
2125fSQdv4zsA…RJB9NE4.71%derived5%96K100.0Excellent
213DCKyEmMENQ…SDCzKA4.46%5%96K78.4Good
214EATpCzQNs8…mcsY7f4.46%5%96K78.8Good
215jntr1vkzvS…P5uDQA4.43%5%96K75.8Good
216hnhCMmnrmo…gFiV4o4.47%derived5%96K79.4Good
2177CR6whiYUL…BQKiVe4.59%3%96K89.9Good
2183DaPk6TdeG…gYK8BV4.71%derived0%97K100.0Excellent
219HMWXfjaeSH…MXbDGH4.71%derived0%97K100.0Excellent
220RoYLttggWw…R8pTz44.46%5%97K78.6Good
221pitch9cMru…weMg554.47%derived5%97K79.4Good
2226gL3uHvuUj…ByzEHd4.47%5%97K78.9Good
2232XmhZKHmfj…9mo82C4.47%derived5%98K79.4Good
2241i1yPyh843…2KAs2i4.50%5%98K82.1Good
225BJvrWSfonX…BumTca4.47%5%98K78.9Good
226mALL2W6DUg…tEoG3y4.45%5%98K77.8Good
227SWiz7QwnYP…cB2cov4.71%derived5%99K100.0Excellent
228AWZhUiQjrj…i411hN4.71%derived0%99K100.0Excellent
2294JahMMrVRS…MttL1E4.71%derived0%99K100.0Excellent
230uEhHSnCXvW…hC54i34.71%derived0%100K100.0Excellent
231te1ee9rGf3…UF8rNY4.46%5%100K78.5Good
232ADjyeNzWd8…QcXjop4.71%derived0%100K100.0Excellent
233F6kVwubXEf…xSLa7S2.60%10%100K58.8Degraded
234G4GT8z4AKW…4GvWdU4.71%derived0%101K100.0Excellent
235rapXHroUoG…YarvSC4.51%5%102K82.8Good
236mastWEbKEM…rgzn1g4.46%5%102K78.2Good
237vnd1Ps8w3f…xvbysd4.46%5%103K78.6Good
2383YX7PQuESm…1Kg9DS4.31%2%103K65.2Degraded
239ExCHWgfeJy…GNqjWD4.47%5%103K79.6Good
240TopjgY7N1f…gAKhDG4.71%derived0%103K100.0Excellent
241Lua1fxRRHC…uF2WSb4.50%5%103K82.2Good
242GQiWnDYrzH…MBiPEe4.71%derived5%103K100.0Excellent
243Mwz8VgAEnP…nsTo5k4.71%derived0%104K100.0Excellent
244adre1Xia7e…2agAKZ4.46%5%104K78.5Good
245LodeuWMHPi…GJ9TSS4.64%1%104K93.9Excellent
246MicoB9cA9R…U6Z2yz4.71%derived0%105K100.0Excellent
247nateKhsYkr…fNkxdC4.46%5%105K78.5Good
2488nbE53mcKh…Sdtukr4.71%derived0%106K100.0Excellent
249G1eAmANVWf…k5hZqN4.47%5%106K79.5Good
250spur5CDwBv…q7zgvD4.42%derived1%106K75.3Good
Take it awayCSV— Solana staking yieldsJSON— Solana staking yieldsevery validator, not only the filtered view

Rates are annualised from completed epochs. A measured rate is recovered from the payment the chain made to the validator's vote account; a derived rate is the cohort's own measured gross rate with this validator's commission and block production applied, used where no payment can be inverted — at zero commission there is nothing to invert.

How a rate is arrived at

Measured

The chain reports what it paid a validator’s vote account, which is that validator’s commission on its delegators’ rewards — not the rewards themselves. Those are paid straight into individual stake accounts and are not reported anywhere.

So the commission is divided back out. A validator charging 7% that was paid 351 SOL earned its delegators 351 ÷ 0.07 × 0.93 between them.

Derived, and why it is needed

Dividing by zero recovers nothing, and roughly half of Solana’s validators charge no commission at all — so for them there is no payment to invert. The same applies where a validator’s stake has changed so much since it was paid that the two figures no longer describe the same moment.

Those rows use the rate the rest of the cohort was measurably paid, with this validator’s own commission and block production applied — and they say so, on every row.

Neither figure includes MEV. Jito tips are distributed outside the protocol’s own reward mechanism and are not visible in what the chain reports here, so a validator running Jito may pay more than this page shows. It is not estimated here. Full methodology